This past Tuesday, I paid a visit to the European Symposium on campus. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get off work to sit in on the panel with the visitor from Oztenhausen, an organization that my German professors mention frequently. I did, however, find the exhibit about World War 2 very interesting.
The exhibit was put on by the Holocaust Museum, which I have visited a couple times. The layout of the information as well as their online information at the symposium was very aesthetically pleasing and informative.
Three Things I learned:
- Jewish families could be released from concentration camps if they were distinguished military servicemen.
- There were approximate 200 Liberty Ships built in the Savannah Harbor.
- Many people who fled Europe during the war ended up in Georgia.
Two Things I Will Examine Further:
- The parallels between how blacks were treated in America and how Jewish people were treated in Europe.
- The many camps and forts in Georgia that were used in the war- I didn’t realize how many there were.
One Question I Still Have:
- If they were so worried about Japanese-Americans that they put them in internment camps, why would they draft one of them (Jimmy Doi) into the U.S Army?
I enjoyed this exhibit and how it put the war into perspective. I never thought of how many people in Georgia were so greatly impacted by the war. The following quote was one of my favorite parts about the exhibit:
Laura The Explora 